Updated: 2:18 PM CST January 15, 2021
ST. LOUIS A 19-year-old man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of teenager last summer in south St. Louis.
The suspect was taken into custody on Wednesday, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday morning. Police said they handed the case over to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office to review potential charges. A check of Missouri s online court records showed no charges against the suspect in this case.
The man is suspected of killing Jaquelle Brown on Father’s Day last June. Jaquelle was just 17 years old.
At 3:08 p.m. that day, St. Louis police officers were called to an alley near the 4600 block of Virginia Avenue, which is near the border of the Dutchtown and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods. They arrived to find Jaquelle suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.